Programa Nacional de Produção e Uso de Biodiesel (PNPB) - possibilidades e limites do desenvolvimento econômico e da inclusão social para a agricultura familiar na Amazônia: o assentamento Calmaria II, Moju (PA)

Abstract

The concern with the environment from 70 years shows the necessity of replacing fossil fuels, and Brazil, as a world reference in the production and use of renewable sources of energy launched the National Program for Production and Use of Biodiesel (PNPB) in 2004 with the distinction of the stimulus to generate income through production and marketing of raw materials on family farms through the “Social Seal”, with will be granted to producers of biodiesel to acquire raw material from these farmers. The research addresses the production of oilseeds, namely the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). From the work of family farmers settled via the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) in the settlement Project (PA) Calmaria II, the municipally of Moju with continuous area to plantations Agropalma Company, organized in an association, have focused on the production and marketing of palm oil as a vector of income and also social inclusion. These fall through funding PRONAF from the Bank of Amazonian savis so check how it gives its inclusion and its consequent contribution to the development of the region, which still is far removed from the modernization of the field found in other regions of the country.